Expressionless
Merciless
This is his new way
He stares blankly
He starts waving me away
How easily he puts the leash down
Is this what it all concludes to?
A little over a thousand days in bind
He saws through the chains
I'm no longer confined
My attention shaken
My head perturbed
Overall now forsaken
My understanding disturbed
I recall
He once took me in when I was tumbling to the ground
Ill with the infliction of neglect
If I remind him of this could he come around?
Where is he?
Who once claimed I was worthy of show?
The one who’d parade me around
Why is he now telling me to go?
I study his face
Serious
So like him
Yet so dista
You're quite the giver of advice
Stroll between these fools
You've got the power
You're so wise
Higher intellect
Than the sleeping ones
Pulling torches on their faces
In attempts to force them
To see you as the sun
All you have to do
Is point out every flaw (every flaw)
You'll have them at your feet
By the time you set
Your opinion is law (along with every flaw)
But you're the one trying to lead lands
Running back and forth with cuffed hands
You're the one trying to shout commands
Pointing here and there with cuffed hands
You're still stuck
Stagnantly believing
That from your throne
You can guide a world
Who doesn't claim you
As their own
A Sonnet of Mutual Separation by ExultantRecluse, literature
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A Sonnet of Mutual Separation
A Sonnet of Mutual Separation - by Jacklyn Diaz
There is sweet stillness in the room
There is a certain silence
Smiles filled with tears and gloom
Muted laughter deformed by compliance
To an agreement we finally came
And I take your face in my hands
One last time your gaze I claim
You search me for demands
Still soundless I remain
You stare back with vacant eyes
You hand me back what you’d slain
Still I wait for you to sympathize
Still nothing you impart
Sighing, looking down, I take back my heart.
Expressionless
Merciless
This is his new way
He stares blankly
He starts waving me away
How easily he puts the leash down
Is this what it all concludes to?
A little over a thousand days in bind
He saws through the chains
I'm no longer confined
My attention shaken
My head perturbed
Overall now forsaken
My understanding disturbed
I recall
He once took me in when I was tumbling to the ground
Ill with the infliction of neglect
If I remind him of this could he come around?
Where is he?
Who once claimed I was worthy of show?
The one who’d parade me around
Why is he now telling me to go?
I study his face
Serious
So like him
Yet so dista
You're quite the giver of advice
Stroll between these fools
You've got the power
You're so wise
Higher intellect
Than the sleeping ones
Pulling torches on their faces
In attempts to force them
To see you as the sun
All you have to do
Is point out every flaw (every flaw)
You'll have them at your feet
By the time you set
Your opinion is law (along with every flaw)
But you're the one trying to lead lands
Running back and forth with cuffed hands
You're the one trying to shout commands
Pointing here and there with cuffed hands
You're still stuck
Stagnantly believing
That from your throne
You can guide a world
Who doesn't claim you
As their own
A darkened mind who will often put herself in destructive situations, who will analyze every step she'll take, all the while wondering if she'll ever break.